Amid tens of thousands of people dying and millions more falling into economic despair thanks to the global coronavirus outbreak, CNN’s Bill Weir has found a rare silver lining in all this calamity, saying that the deadly pandemic has actually “helped humanity buy some time [against] global warming.”
In a segment that’s raked in more than a little criticism from anyone with half a brain or an ounce of basic human decency, Weir reported that pollution in many of the world’s major cities has dropped considerably since factories were shut down and people stopped driving cars thanks to the outbreak.
“There seems to be this perception that maybe the virus has helped humanity buy some time when it comes to global warming,” Weir said - of course, completely and conveniently omitting the fact that tens of millions of people are now facing financial devastation, a total loss of their livelihood and even extreme poverty thanks to the massive multi-nation shutdown.
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He then asked his guest Dr. Jonathan Foley, executive director of the extreme environmentalist group Project Drawdown, to elaborate on the “problem with that assumption” that COVID-19 is temporarily helping curb climate change.
“We’d have to keep doing this, and doing it more, for the next 30 years,” Foley replied.
Weir then shifted angles, inexplicably blaming the coronavirus on the fact that humans have cut down too many trees.
“Virologists for years tried to warn us that an invisible enemy would come out of the jungles if we just kept cutting them down, and they were right,” Weir bizarrely tacked on, without offering any shred of proof that the coronavirus, which originated in Wuhan, China and may have come from a lab, stemmed from deforestation.
“So if any good can come out of this, Alison, maybe it’s an understanding that the climatologist, who were warning about the invisible enemy up in our sky and in our seas, maybe we should take them seriously, too,” he said.